How to Say Humor —— Three Ways to Make a Speech Humorous

In life, people who speak humorously are often easily welcomed by others.

This kind of humor is not a low-level grimace or a deliberate joke, but an advanced way of thinking and reaction based on the current environmental materials.

For example, before I went out to a party with some friends, there was this conversation:

Friend A asked friend B: How is your business recently?

Friend b said: after talking about several customers, the company should have new actions after the Chinese New Year!

Friend A: Do you make much money?

Friend B: Not bad! There's not much money anyway.

Friend c immediately interjected: never say that you don't have much money, but you can't talk nonsense.

We are all very strange: why?

Friend C: Because speaking of not making much money, it's Versailles.

Several of us immediately understood what our friend C meant and laughed at once, which made the conversation atmosphere of the whole party relaxed and harmonious.

Friend C didn't deliberately tell jokes or vulgar words, but seized the "language loophole" in our usual chat and constructed humorous words in that language environment on the spot by changing his thinking.

These words may lack the blessing of the current language environment, and others will find it funny. But as long as we are in it, it is easy to hear the implication and smile.

This is what people with a strong sense of humor often do.

So what can we do to make ourselves a person with a sense of humor?

1, learn to create suspense; The reason why we laugh at some words is usually inseparable from the "bedding" of suspense.

There are two ways to pave the road:

The active construction of language scenes paves the way for the passive construction of the current language environment, and the example of friend C mentioned above belongs to the second kind. Because of the dialogue between our friends, this language environment has been passively paved, so you don't have to take the initiative to build it. So as long as you know how to change your thinking and dig out places that can be used for jokes in this language environment, you can build humorous words.

What are the preparations for actively creating a language environment? For example:

One day, Xiaoming went to the office to get something from the Chinese teacher. When he left, he said politely, "goodbye, teacher!" " "

Seeing that there are other teachers in the office, the Chinese teacher said to Xiaoming, "You should add' children' after the teacher, not just me."

Xiao Ming paused, and then said to the Chinese teacher, "Goodbye, teacher"! After that, he went to the door and said to the door, "goodbye, door!" " "

Did this joke make you laugh? If so, it shows that the "language environment" created by the previous words has played a foreshadowing role.

In other words, whether it is active construction or passive excavation, as long as your mind is flexible, you can create suspense through bedding and arouse the psychological expectation of the audience.

When you finally "shake off the burden", it will naturally make others feel "suddenly enlightened" It turns out that the direction of their thinking is different from the direction of your shaking your baggage, which leads to dislocation of thinking and laughter.

2. You must be skillful in telling. Of course, whether you play well or not, you should combine your narrative skills.

Whether you tell a joke or show a sense of humor, when you tell a story, don't rush to give a result. You should explain as if nothing had happened, pave the way for the audience and create suspense.

At the same time, when you want to get rid of the burden, every pause, every special tone change, every corresponding expression, or every gesture and body language expression should have a blessing or amplification effect on your story.

Otherwise, if your tone is flat, your tone remains unchanged and your expression is stiff, even if you finally get rid of the burden, others will only feel puzzled and have no comedy effect.

For example, what do you think of the following example?

One day, a president, a headmaster, a little boy with a schoolbag and a helicopter pilot were all in a helicopter. Suddenly, the helicopter broke down and will crash soon. But the plane only has three parachute bags. So the president immediately picked up an umbrella bag and said, "I am the head of a country." If I die, the country will be finished, and I must live! " "I jumped down.

The headmaster also hurriedly picked up an umbrella bag and said, "As the headmaster, if the school doesn't have me, the school will be finished!" " "Then he jumped down.

Then the driver said, "Son, you are the hope of the motherland, so I will give you my umbrella bag." The boy said, "Don't worry. We also have two umbrella bags. "

The driver felt very strange: "Aren't there two for them?"

The little boy replied, "What the headmaster robbed was my schoolbag ..."

In front of the language environment, you can describe the content normally, but it is best to combine the characteristics of the characters and express it in a corresponding tone.

You can try to record your own story and listen to yourself. Compare what you think of those humorous people, and then adjust.

As long as you practice repeatedly, you will definitely find an expression that suits you.

3. Actively changing the way of thinking and expressing humor cannot be separated from the use of the way of thinking.

Some people can quickly make humorous remarks about certain things because they know how to interpret things in an "illogical" way of thinking.

For example, when you see a friend wearing thick clothes, the general logical thinking reaction is to ask him if his friend feels cold and weak.

But the "illogical" way of thinking will break away from the logical point of view and interpret things in new ways, such as: "Are you going to explore the Arctic in such thick clothes? After all, you shouldn't wear so much in this weather! "

The way of thinking used in this sentence is "exaggeration", which exaggerates the interpretation of "friends wear more clothes".

For example, if you don't shave to meet a friend, and the friend asks you why you don't shave, you may answer "I forgot" or "I don't have time to shave" and so on.

But if you exaggerate this matter, you can say, "That's because I waited too long for the bus, and my beard slowly grew. In fact, I shaved it before I came to see you. "

Will this "excuse" give people a more interesting feeling It will also ease the embarrassment caused by your forgetting to shave?

Imagine what kind of "thinking technique" is used in the following example?

One sunny summer day, the father said to his son, "Don't stay at home, go out for a walk!" " "

The son said, "Dad, it's noon. Do you know how big the sun is outside?"

Father: "Yes, the diameter is 1.392 million kilometers."

Can you see what kind of thinking transformation technique this is? It is "misinterpretation". The father misinterpreted the concept of "big" in his son's mouth from "degree" to "size" to refute him.

Another example is:

A: "What have you been up to recently?"

B: "I'm not busy. I just invest in sports or do some charity."

A: "So powerful? Successful people! "

B: "Yes, are you interested?"

B took out a lottery ticket and a two-color ball that I just bought.

This example applies the concepts of investment and charity to buying lottery tickets, that is, using unrelated and overlapping concepts together will give people an unexpected feeling.

There are many ways to change thinking, except exaggeration and misinterpretation, as well as homophonic and sentence-breaking.

For example, in a variety show, Zhang Wei asked Han Juan if he and Ku Kuiji were good friends. Ehan Juan asked why, and Zhang Wei said it was because they were antonyms. This is a way of thinking transformation through homophonic misinterpretation and conceptual interpretation.

Usually watch more different jokes, humorous stories and videos that make you laugh, then analyze the mechanism behind making you laugh and try to imitate and create a joke by yourself.

As long as you exercise regularly and develop this way of thinking, it will easily become a habit of reaction, thus improving your sense of humor.